pluralist

From plural +‎ -ist.

pluralist (plural pluralists)

1. A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
2. An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)

pluralist (comparative more pluralist, superlative most pluralist)

1. Of, or related to pluralism.
   • 2014, Bruce E. Cain, Democracy More or Less‎^[1]:

     In addition, a more pluralist system in a large diverse democracy should foster aggregation, compromise, and tolerance.

   • 2025 December 17, Jennifer Szalai, “The Intellectuals Fueling the MAGA Movement”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 December 2025:

     Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.

Borrowed from French pluraliste. By surface analysis, plural +‎ -ist.

pluralist m or n (feminine singular pluralistă, masculine plural pluraliști, feminine/neuter plural pluraliste)

1. pluralistic

pluralist c

1. a pluralist (supporter of pluralism)

• pluralism
• pluralistisk

• pluralist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)